SI
SI
discoversearch

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor.  We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community.  If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.
Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: shadowman who wrote (99062)6/3/2003 11:03:59 AM
From: Knighty Tin  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 132070
 
Dennis, Geez, I almost never agree with Krugman, but he's right on here. I saw another source that claims that when Colin Powell saw the crap they were trying to get him to feed to the UN, he crumpled up the papers, threw them on the floor and said, "this is all bulls---!" I wonder what they did to make him give the speech? My guess is, as a career military man, when the CINC gives final orders, you march straight. We hung a lot of Germans for doing the same thing, but then, the orders they followed were one heck of a lot worse. Still, I always wonder how many of us would have stood up to an order from Hitler's SS when you know you'll be shot on the spot? I like to think I would, but, you never know til you've been there.



To: shadowman who wrote (99062)6/4/2003 1:28:16 PM
From: Yogizuna  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 132070
 
>>>> In that case, our political system has become utterly, and perhaps irrevocably, corrupted. <<<<

Already a fate accompli in my opinion.